Subject: bug#16861: 24.3; Eshell /.. eshell/pwd Bug

From: Thierry Volpiatto <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:29:31 +0100

Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> writes:

> Thierry Volpiatto <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>>> "R. Michael Weylandt" <[email-masked]> writes:
>>>
>>>> Enter eshell, change to / and then cd to ".." and eshell/pwd reports
>>>> "/.." instead of the canonical "/":
>>>
>>> (expand-file-name ".." "/") -> "/.."
>>>
>>> See its doc string.
>>
>> We are speaking here of `eshell/pwd' which should return "/" like
>> `*pwd', `expand-filename' is unrelated to this.
>
> See eshell/cd, which uses cd which uses expand-filename.

Probably, but the problem is related to pwd.
See docstring of `eshell-pwd-convert-function'.

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